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by sbenitoj 9y ago
They’re definitely already in the thick of it, no doubt about it. But ultimately capital goes where it is treated best, and governments treat capital worse than thieves, they’ll never play by the rules. It’s not going to happen overnight, a
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You don’t consider sound money to be an important innovation?
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“Any unregulated financial system is a hive of villainy and scum as a truism.” Wow, you do realize that fiat is the number 1 one way to fund the drug trade and terrorism right? It certainly isn’t crypto. Not exactly a great way to sum up wh
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Even though the debate about the amount of nutrition in organic/non-organic is unsettled, I think it’s still worth buying organic to reduce pesticide exposure. Here is a good article summarizing studies on soaking fruits and veggies (b
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I still believe it’s worth buying organic, here is a good article summarizing studies on using baking soda to remove pesticides from fruits and vegetables, and a key quote from the article: “Even with bicarbonate, buying organic may still b
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Oh cool thanks for sharing, didn’t know that. Doesn’t seem to have done much unfortunately.
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This would be a good change for them to make. I wish they’d also force apps to differentiate between functional notifications to actually use the app (eg “Your Uber has arrived!”) vs advertising notifications (“Discounted Ubers today!!”) I
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Thanks!
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Wow! Surprised by that, didn't expect there to be such variation from person to person.
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If you Google the letter n, Netflix is the #1 organic result, how?(google.com)
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What wallet are you using?
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Monero is downright user hostile at this point!
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How do you define, specifically, a pump and dump vs a legitimate cryptocurrency?
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Have you checked out the Bitcoin Cash community on r/BTC? There’s plenty of hatred for Core developers on there, but there’s also a lot of grassroots projects going on, like the Bitcoin Cash Fund that recently raised about $85k to fund
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Glad to hear it helps! The NYT has a good “buy vs rent calculator” that’s worth checking out: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... Even though the calculator is useful, it’s importa
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People generally don’t borrow money to pay their rent, so rent prices are restricted by local salaries. People borrow the vast majority of the cost of a house to buy it, so housing prices are largely only restricted by how much banks are wi
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Check this fee estimator: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
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The fees have nothing to do with how much money you’re sending, you could send $1 or $1,000,000 and it would cost the same thing. The fees are based on how large the transaction is (in terms of kilobytes, that is, not amount). Some transact
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Agreed! Also lard, tallow, and grass-fed butter. Nature doesn’t make bad fats, factories do.
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Great article, just book marked it. Definitely appeals to people “like me” who align philosophically with HN types. My biggest issue with it, and all diet advice that wants to “give it to you straight, it’s all about calories” is this — YES
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Congrats! Yes that’s also true. But cutting grains also fixes your sense of satiety. Ever had a piece of bread and then next thing you knew the whole bread basket was gone? Many people feel like they can’t control themselves when eating bre
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Wheat Belly is not a diet book, it’s a summary of the science out there on grains with 100s of scientific citations. Yes it has diet recommendations at the end of it.
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Hm, did you read my comment? I said source: Wheat Belly (book by Dr William Davis), but also my experience working with clients and with trainers who are experts at transforming clients from fat to fit.
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Whole grains are one of the biggest sources of dietary inflammation. There isn’t something inherently wrong with grains, it’s that they’re not even close to the grains we evolved to eat anymore (at least, not in the U.S. — grains in mainlan
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Your wife is one of the few pedigreed nutrionists who “knows” that! Sadly most nutritionists are overweight themselves and continue to advocate people consume whole grains, low-fat dairy, and fruit to lose weight/be healthier. Kudos to
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Well, the Austrian Business Cycle Theory [0] has shown that the continuous, never ending increase in the money supply is actually responsible for greatly exacerbating the boom and bust cycle, so there are in fact many losers of this (people
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You’re using a different definition of inflation. There are two phenomena we’re talking about here — an increase in the supply of money and the decrease in the purchasing power of money. The term inflation is broadly used to apply to both o
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Definitely, the user experience is going to have to improve A LOT. It took a solid 20 years before email was used by grandmothers though, in another 11 years it’s likely to see grandmothers using cryptocurrencies!
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Great point, luckily unlike fiat currency, developers can fork the code and create a new currency if they don’t agree with the way things are being run. This happened when Bitcoin forked into Bitcoin Cash (which has a blocksize that’s rough
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There are certain people who benefit from inflation (banks who loan money, governments who have their debt denominated in fiat currency) and there are people who lose from inflation (anyone who saves their money in fiat, the value of which

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